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EF2 tornado in Grant County, Oklahoma

Tornado March 5, 2026 · Grant County, Oklahoma

EF2
Rating
19.1 mi
Whole path
800 yd
Path width
$415K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Alfalfa County → Grant County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado moved from Alfalfa County into Grant County west of Nash, along and north of U.S. Highway 64. A row of power poles was broken along U.S. 64 on both sides on the Alfalfa-Grant County line with damage consistent with an EF2 tornado The tornado was turning to the left and moving more north-northeast as it moved into Grant County. The tornado continued to damage trees and power poles between the county line and N2760 Road in areas south of E0220 Road. The tornado dissipated near or soon after crossing E0220 Road.

The wider storm

Scattered severe thunderstorms impacted portions of western and northern Oklahoma from the late evening of the 5th into early morning hours of the 6th. This activity developed in the vicinity of a dryline as a deep upper trough began to establish across the Four Coners. As a nocturnal low-level jet strengthened after sunset, a pair of cyclic tornadic thunderstorms emerged from the eastern Texas Panhandle into northern Oklahoma. In addition to several tornadoes, including a deadly tornado west of Fairview in Major County, large hail and eventually damaging wind gusts were observed with severe convection across the region.

Began near Nash (36.6680, -98.1100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325182. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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